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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun The smallest unit of a plant that can grow into an entire plant.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In botany, same as phytomer.
  • noun [capitalized] In entomology, a genus of Cerambycidæ.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Bot.) One of the parts which by their repetition make up a flowering plant, each being a single joint of a stem with its leaf or leaves; a phytomer.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun botany One of the parts which by their repetition make up a flowering plant, each being a single joint of a stem with its leaf or leaves.

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[New Latin, from Greek phuton, plant; see phyto–.]

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From Ancient Greek φυτόν (phuton, "plant").

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